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Melissa T. Cook:  Free Trade: Boosting Africa's Recovery The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was officially launched on January 1, 2021.	Tue, Feb 23, 2021	African Sunrise Partners LLC
Miguel Schloss: Tackling Climate Change in a Changing World President of Surinvest Ltda. & Virtus Atlas SpA (Chile); Former Executive Director of Transparency International (Germany), and Director of Corporate & Budget Planning of World Bank (USA).	Mon, Feb 15, 2021	Global Journals of Science Frontier Research
Kevin P. Gallagher: TF 9 – International Finance Kevin. P. Gallagher has been named a co-chair of the T20 Task Force on International Finance.	Fri, Mar 5, 2021	T20
Arturo Porzecanski: Argentina and the IMF: Another Default in the Works? The seeds for the latest chapter in Argentina’s long history of confrontations with the International Monetary Fund were planted about a year ago, on the eve of the global pandemic.	Wed, Mar 3, 2021	Americas Quarterly
Jean-Claude Trichet: Trichet Warns That U.S. Stimulus Could Be 'Overdone' Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet warns that President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposal could be a "little overdone" considering the economy is already growing "quite fast and rapidly."	Tue, Feb 16, 2021	Bloomberg
Helen Qiao: China Would Be Able to Double Its GDP by 2035, Says Bank of America China has stood out as one of the fastest-growing economies amid the Covid-19 pandemic, says Helen Qiao of Bank of America in an interview with CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”	Fri, Feb 26, 2021	CNBC
Stormy-Annika Mildner: G7 Economic Resilience Panel The German Federal Government has nominated Dr. Stormy-Annika Mildner for the G7 Economic Resilience Panel.	Thu, Feb 18, 2021	G7 United Kingdom 2021
John Lipsky: There’s No Magic in How SDRs Help the Poor A new SDR allocation would provide liquidity to many emerging and developing countries that today have severely limited access to external financing.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	Wall Street Journal
Jason Schenker: The Fate of Asset Inflation After COVID COVID-19 was the greatest public health crisis in a century, and it engendered the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee
Marjo Koivisto and Daria Taglioni: Circular Business in the Global Economy: Priority on Redesign Aside from accelerating decarbonization of industries, a key priority in the global economy today is to reduce the use of virgin materials. In discussions over the circular economy (CE), emphasis is usually put on “reusing” and “recycling”. Instead, for CE to grow sufficiently to avert the grim projections of the global economy running out of materials within decades, more pervasive change is needed. The notion that products and materials that depreciate slower are more valuable must be better internalized by their industrial and household consumers.	Wed, Feb 24, 2021	The Bretton Woods Committee